Narrative Inquiries of School Reform
Storied Lives, Storied Landscapes, Storied Metaphors
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2003
241 pages
978-1-60752-675-9 (ISBN)
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This book culminates five years of extensive field-based inquiry with teachers and principals in four reforming school contexts. It arises from living alongside teachers and principals, entering into their realities, engaging them in conversations, seeing school life through their eyes, and employing the words and images they use to wrap around their experiences. It involved thinking narratively about schools as sites of high drama within which teachers and principals negotiate meaning as knowledgeable and knowing human beings. It gave primacy to everyday events taking shape on school landscapes. It meant creating spaces and devoting enormous amounts of time to observing and listening hard to what teachers and principals say and do when reform initiatives become personally lived in context--from their points of view.
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Cheryl J. Craig
Narrative Inquiries of School Reform
Storied Lives, Storied Landscapes, Storied Metaphors
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 SETTING THE SCENE
- Part I
- Chapter 2 T.P YAEGER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- Chapter 3 THE MONKEY'S PAW
- Chapter 4 HARDY ACADEMY
- Chapter 5 DUELING BANJOS
- Chapter 6 TWO STORIED SCHOOL CONTEXTS
- Part II
- Chapter 7 EAGLE HIGH SCHOOL
- Chapter 8 THE DRAGON IN SCHOOL BACKYARDS
- Chapter 9 DESTINY HIGH SCHOOL
- Chapter 10 THE RAINBOW FISH
- Chapter 11 TWO STORIED SCHOOL CONTEXTS
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12 GRAND FINALE I
- Chapter 13 GRAND FINALE II
- Epilogue
- Chapter 14 A CASE OF "NIGHT AND THE CANDLEMAKER
- References
- Index
